Alsager, Dorothy Buckels (1910-1935)

BUCKELS, ALSAGER, WILLIS

Posted By: Colleen Ossman (email)
Date: 7/27/2007 at 11:39:51

DEATH OF MRS. CHESTER ALSAGER

This entire community is shocked and grieved by the death of Mrs. Chester Alsager, of Radcliffe, whose death occurred Thursday morning at 3:45 o’clock following an illness of about four months.
Mrs. Alsager was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm Buckels of Jewell, her maiden name being Dorothy Ruth Buckels. She was born near Jewell November 14, 1910, and lived all her life in this community until her marriage, since when she has lived near Radcliffe. As a girl and young woman she was popular and loved by all who knew her; a splendid, quiet young woman who loved her home and who in her home was given every possible advantage and every loving care that her parents could give her. She graduated from Jewell High School in the spring of 1930. She was much interested in the work of the Girls 4-H Club, and was an active worker in the Lyon township club of that organization.
Miss Buckels was married to Mr. Chester Alsager, at the English Lutheran Church in Webster City, January 27, 1934. One child was born to this union who died October 14th of this year at the age of about four weeks. The mother continued in poor health and about eight weeks ago she was brought to the home of her parents at Jewell, where her mother, father, husband and brother Billy were constantly by her bedside and gave her every tender and loving care that was possible, but without avail. On Christmas Eve she was taken to the hospital at Eldora where she passed away Thursday morning, December 26, 1935, at the age of 25 years, 1 month and 12 days.
She is survived by her husband, her father and mother, two brothers, Lloyd and William Jr., her grandfather, Wm Willis of Alden, and many other more distant relatives. Her passing is also mourned by a wide circle of friends throughout this community, whose most sincere sympathy is extended to the bereaved husband, parents and brothers.
The funeral service was held Saturday afternoon, at 1:30 at the Fleenor funeral parlor and at two o’clock at the Federated Church in Jewell, the pastor, Rev. C.L. Duxbury, officiating. Interment was in Homewood cemetery at Ellsworth. At the funeral service songs were sung by a quartet composed of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fenton and Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Fleenor. Those who served as pallbearers were Howard Headley, Willis Barkema, Sanford Sydness, Kenneth Cammack, Orville Handeland and Norman Maland.
Among the relatives and friends from a distance who were here to attend the service were: Mr. and Mrs. Al Buckels and daughter Esther and Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Buckels, of Lakota; Mr. and Mrs. Gisle Anderson of Thompson; Mr. and Mrs. Victor Flickenger, of LaMonte; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Disney and Mr and Mrs. Edward Buckels and Eddie, of Boone; Mrs. L.L. Flickenger, of Ames; Robert and William Willis, Mrs. Ruth Folstadt, and Arnold Jensen, of Popejoy; Mrs. Ruth Hinderaker, of Ellsworth; and Mrs. Thos. Amundson, Mr. and Mrs. Swen Ostem, Julius Tjernagel, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Hodnefield, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Boyd, Mrs. A.O.Skrovig, Grandma Larson, Mr. and Mrs. George Bergeson, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Olson, Kenneth Cammack, and Ed Alsager, all of Radcliffe.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all of our kind friends and neighbors who have been so kind and helpful to us and who in so many ways have expressed their sympathy on the occasion of our bereavement, in the death of our wife, daughter and sister, Mrs. Chester Alsager.

Mr. Chester Alsager

Mr and Mrs. Wm. Buckels and family